Yankel Adler: Woman & Cat RARE / Jewish Polish German S/Etching

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Yankel Adler: Woman & Cat RARE / Jewish Polish German S/Etching:
$990.00

Yankel Adler

1895, Lodz,Polans - 1949,London, England

Woman and Cat

RARE &Original Hand-SignedEtching

Artist Name: Yankel Adler

Title: Woman and cat

Signature Description:

Hand-signedlower right,

Numbered \"5/15\" lower left,

Signed in the plate upper left

Technique: Etching

Image Size:30 x40 cm / 11.81\" x 15.75\" inch

Frame:Unframed(The frame is only shown for illustration)

Condition: Very good

Artist\'s Biography:

Yankel Adler (July 26, 1895 – April 25, 1949) was a Polish painter and printmaker.

Biography

He was born as the seventh of ten children in Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź.

In 1912 he began training as an engraver with his uncle in Belgrade.

He moved in 1914 to Germany where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen. There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with professor Gustav Wiethücher.

From 1918-1919 he went back to Łódź, where he was joint founder of \"Jung Jidysz\", a group of avant-garde artists.

In 1920 he returned briefly to Berlin; in 1921 he returned to Barmen, and in 1922 he moved to Düsseldorf.

There he became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with Paul Klee, who influenced his work. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition “German art Düsseldorf” in 1928.

In 1929 and 1930 he went on study trips in Mallorca and other places in Spain. During the election campaign of July 1932 he published with a group of leftist artists and intellectuals an urgent appeal against the policy of the National Socialists and for communism.

As a modern artist, and especially as a Jew, he faced persecution under Hitler\'s regime which took power in 1933. In that year, two of his pictures were displayed by the Nazis at the Mannheimer Arts Center as examples of degenerate art, and Adler left Germany, staying in Paris where he regarded his exile consciously as political resistance against the fascist regime in Germany.

In the years that followed, he made numerous journeys to Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Soviet Union.

In 1937, twenty-five of his works were seized from public collections by the Nazis and four were shown in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich.

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army that had been reconstituted in France; in 1941 he was discharged for health reasons and lived thereafter in Kirkcudbright in Scotland.

In 1943 he moved to London.

Died in Whitley Cottage near Aldbourne on April 25, 1949 at the age of 53 years and with the bitter knowledge that none of his nine brothers and sisters had survived the Holocaust.

Hisworks are represented in several museums throughout the world.

Work

Adler was strongly influenced by Picasso and Léger. He enjoyed experimenting with materials, for example sand admixtures. He often painted Jewish subjects, and painted some few abstract compositions.

Bibliography

· Stefan Themerson, Jankel Adler: an artist seen from one of many possible angles, Gaberbocchus Press, London. 1948

· Andrzej Kempa, Marek Szukalak, The Biographical Dictionary of the Jews from Lodz, Łódź 2006: Oficyna Bibliofilów and Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense, pp. 6-7, ISBN 83-87522-83-X

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